The first gay black woman to survive a horror movie

And finally, we have our current decade. Ken Sagoes plays a character named Roland Kinkaid who fights and survives! Google is far less helpful there, since searches mostly just return listicles of other black characters that didn't get offed in slasher films.

In the film, its star, Daniel Kaluuya thankfully makes it to the end. I have good news, though. Before then, most Black people in these type of movies are dead within the first 15 minutes. We really are only just getting started, but we do have some notable survivors to mention.

Did Ruby Dee break the mold as one of the first Black women to survive a horror movie? So, it seems like the Black dude surviving was on Cube's mind when he took the role. Of course this got me thinking -- who actually was the first notable black character to survive?

And, I have proof! Rapper Rah Digga and Monk, er, Tony Shalhoub made it all the way to the end, setting the ghosts free.

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First, I want to start off with Danny Glover who managed to survive a freaking Predator attack in one of the better movies in the Predator movie franchise, Predator 2 back in In fact, this is what he had to say on Twitter about why he took on the role in the first place:.

There are of course more than I've listed below, but these are some of the most notable survivors. Means Coleman, and Mark H. Harris for exploring this very topic. People are still debating it today. The s were a big decade for horror, but also a big decade for popular musicians at the time getting into acting.

The first known (at least to me) openly black gay character in a horror movie was Bobby McCoy (Ted Harris) in Blacula. But, horror hit new heights when Jordan Peele arrived, as the dude has never made a bad movie. And, those are just a few of the Black characters who have survived horror movies over the decades.

The monster was still on Earth. The inverse of that would be how Black characters are always the first to go. Here’s a history of Black characters surviving in horror movies. Through the years, it has been common that characters of color die first in horror films.

I wanted to start with the s, but things were looking pretty grim. Jackson met a grisly demise. This is quite the contrary. And, even though he was actually eaten in the original cut, he was allowed to survive in later cutsso phew, that was a close one.

Because come on now. This is a compilation of many that actually lived until the end of the film. In this Memoirs of the Last Feral Kids Black History Month special, we honor Ruby Dee’s role in Cat People. All in all, another great decade of Black characters surviving.

There are of course more than I've listed below, but these are some of the most notable survivors. Also inwe got another vampire flick in The Invitation. Before Belle in Fright Night Part 2, and especially since then, black queer characters can be found in horror, across several types of media within the genre, if you actually look for them.